A lot of people don’t like public transit for several major reasons: 1. It takes a lot longer to get to your destination even accounting for traffic. 2. The p

A lot of people don’t like public transit for several major reasons: 1. It takes a lot longer to get to your destination even accounting for traffic. 2. The potential for harassment based on your gender or race. 3. The potential for sexual assault. 4. The potential for violence. Unfortunately, Western society at large is not collective and conformist like the one in Japan, which would heavily mitigate 2 out of the 4 problems stated above. Even then, Japan has a huge problem with harassment and sexual assault when it comes to female passengers.